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Rakhimov to stand down as President of International Boxing Association

  • Boxing

Gafur Rakhimov has declared his intention to stand down as President of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) amid an ongoing International Olympic Committee (IOC) inquiry into the embattled organisation, it was announced today.

outset, this inquiry addresses many other aspects like the AIBA finances, governance and ethics, anti-doping


Estonian Olympic Committee President facing calls to resign over support of two officials caught up in doping

  • Skiing

following controversy over the support he gave to two officials from the country implicated in the doping

ring.Andrus Veerpalu, initially banned for doping by the FIS for three years before the Court of Arbitration

The spokesperson for the EOK claimed Sõõrumaa "did not mean in his editorial that involvement in doping

He remains fully in the position of zero tolerance to doping."

Prosecutors in Germany revealed earlier this week that at least 21 athletes are suspected of blood doping

following the raids.Three winter and two summer sports were involved in the doping ring, Munich state


Former Wales under-21 international handed four-year ban after evading anti-doping test

  • Football

Peterborough United defender Josh Yorwerth has been banned from all sport for four years after evading an anti-doping

face a two-year suspension.A former Wales under-21 international, Yorwerth was charged with an anti-doping

rule violation pursuant to regulation five of Football Association (FA) anti-doping regulations - "evading

conduct”.Former Wales under-21 international Josh Yorwerth is banned until 2022 ©Getty ImagesUK Anti-Doping




Anikina elected permanent President of Russian Bobsleigh Federation

  • Bobsleigh and Skeleton

Russian Bobsleigh Federation (RBF) vice-president and interim head Elena Anikina was elected President of the organisation at an Extraordinary Meeting in Sochi today.

forced to stand down after the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation gave him with a two-year doping

Committee (IOC) found him guilty of knowingly participating in the "systematic manipulation" of the anti-doping



France issue arrest warrants for former IAAF treasurer and senior coach of Russian athletics team

  • Athletics

international arrest warrants for two former Russian athletics officials as part of an investigation into doping

the IAAF in January 2016 after being named in the McLaren Report, which investigated state-sponsored doping

on suspicion of corruption and money laundering.He had been accused of receiving bribes to cover up doping

Shobukhova, the 2010 London Marathon winner and a three-time Chicago Marathon champion, in order to cover-up doping



FIH Executive Board reiterate need for rolling four-year calendar in first meeting of 2019

  • Hockey

The International Hockey Federation (FIH) Executive Board has reiterated the need to create a rolling four-year international competition calendar at their first meeting of the year in Lausanne.

international league, was given in which the first two months were labelled a success and the World Anti-Doping

Agency’s new anti-doping programme was ratified.The next Board meeting will take place on June 28 and


Liam Morgan: WADA facing familiar challenges as public authorities prepare to select Sir Craig's successor as President

  • Inside the Blogs

If I had a British pound for every time I heard someone say the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) needed

Many believe the global anti-doping watchdog, with its mission of protecting clean sport, is grossly

gathering in the Olympic capital was the latest in a long line of events where members of the world of anti-doping

, plummeted into crisis following the Russian doping scandal, had urged Governments and the sports movement

will take for Governments and sport to listen.Speaking of issues which keep cropping up, the Russian doping

dominated by the ongoing Russian situation ©WADAIt is difficult to foresee a time where sport and anti-doping




ITU become first Federation to sign up with new Court of Arbitration for Sport Anti-Doping Division

  • Triathlon

Triathlon Union (ITU) has become the first International Federation to partner with the new permanent Anti-Doping

The partnership means the new CAS Division will adjudicate on alleged anti-doping rule violations involving

triathletes in the first instance, which the ITU claim will guarantee "even more independence" in all anti-doping

CAS-ADD is honoured to have been entrusted with handling the first-instance adjudication of alleged anti-doping

rule violations, including any sanctions, arising under the ITU’s anti-doping rules," President of the

CAS Anti-Doping Division Ivo Eusebio said."


FINA withdraw doping case against Dutch swimmer after results found to be incorrect

  • Swimming

The International Swimming Federation (FINA) is withdrawing its doping case against Dutch swimmer Kira

The Royal Dutch Swimming Federation (KNZB) have released a statement announcing that the doping case

 "I have also mentioned the use of this medication on the doping control form.

It was completely known to FINA and WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) which medication I use and I have

always said that I have never used doping.

Doping controversy also surrounds FINA regarding China's Olympic champion Sun Yang ©Getty Images"The